Hey! After many hours/days/years of ranting about Naruto to all my friends (or nearby people caught in the crossfire), I now have a blog where anyone can read all my naruto related ravings! Obviously the show's kind of far along at this point (gods, how long has this series been going?), but I'll just jump into it as if I've been doing this all along, since, in a way, I have...
So the series is just wrapping up yet ANOTHER wonderful filler arc! Not sure exactly why they're still so insistent on filler since the anime's about three years worth of material behind the actual manga, but hey, that's cool, everyone loves a good filler arc! Too bad good filler arcs don't exist. I have my suspicions that japanese anime writers just have this 'Big Book of Filler Plots' that they open whenever they need an inconsequential arc to take up time while the manga finishes up a more relevant plotline.
As far as the Naruto series is concerned, though, there's mostly just ONE type of filler arc, and that's basically the Gaara storyline retooled with a different, less awesome character. This filler's pick is the ever so creatively named Sora! Who is Sora? Some kid who was magically infused with Kyuubi chakra from way back when the Kyuubi attacked Konoha! How did this happen? Well, some bad guy named Kazuma magically put the evil chakra in his child so the child would grow up to DESTROY KONOHA! I'm not really certain what Kazuma would've done if the Kyuubi had run amok and ended up destroying the whole Fire Country, his homeland, but, hey, as far as I can tell Kazuma was pretty much just nuts anyway so he probably didn’t even give a damn.
Anyway, as things often go with this particular storyline, Sora of the Fire Country is looked down upon by his peers because he’s a monster and he has no friends so on and so forth. So naturally Naruto comes along, fights Sora a couple times, and decides they’re friends. They go back to Konoha, Kazuma shows up, Naruto kills a floating wig (as in a hair piece with glowing eyes), Konoha’s overrun by ninjas zombies, and Sora turns into the Kyuubi. After all other threats to Konoha are taken care of, Naruto gets down to business ending this filler arc as quickly and painlessly as possible by punching Sora in the face and reminding him they’re good buddies!
You and me both Kazuma. Seriously, this was almost the most unintentionally hilarious filler arc yet!
Punched...IN DA FACE! What better reminder that you're friends?
Naruto is BURNT FACE MAN! Could he look any angrier about being friends with Sora? Maybe if he were crying tears of blood...
And goodbye forever! Sora was so desperate to get out of this series he didn't even wait around to finish healing. But, you know, it's cool. He only had, like, eighth degree burns over his entire body is all.
Asuma has self esteem issues. In fact, he goes on to compare himself to a pawn in a shougi board, and then hints that Naruto's the King. NARUTO!! The only time he's competent at all is when he goes into "Generic Selfless Hero" mode, at which point he's hardly even recognizeable as himself! All other time's he's just a bumbling idiot.Well, if there's one good thing that came out of this filler arc, it's that it signals the series' return to the manga storyline, hoorah! Not that the manga storyline is much better (but at least the plot progresses!).
Goodbye, Sora! We'll miss you, assuming we haven't completely forgotten about you by the next episode!
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spoken like a man!
Actually, the last screenshot is right from the manga, and he REALLY doesn't hint at Naruto being the king, the answer will be revealed at the end of the next arc (which was in my opinion the best in the manga so far, Hidan and Kakuzu are very creepy).
I just hope the animators won't slaughter that arc...
well then who's he talking about? He already referred to Shikimaru as a knight, and the only other people in his life he's as close to are Kurenai (who's so unimportant to the story that she literally has done nothing in the entire series worth note other than get pregnant), and maybe Konohamaru because they're related...
I have read the manga, but if that scene was in it, it was so long ago that I don't recall it anymore. Feel free to lay down the spoilers! This blog is not a spoiler free zone.
ahaha this is hysterical! keep up the great work!
The next generation of Ninja are the Shogi "king". Sorta the whole gist of the episode, and of Shippuden really.
The Adults can't keep up with team Shika-Ichi-Cho, and are winded when the shit hits the fan, Naruto succeeds where Yamato (Tenzo) and Asuma failed with Sora, and even the Akatski can be said to vastly superior to the old regime governments of the five lands.
The Managa is about issue 338 or so that you're looking for, it's just a few issues after where this one left off.
One thing I'd like to add, though, is the cartoon, if they go full throttle to the Anime, will catch up in about 20 episodes.
Unless the DBZ the series and have fourteen minutes of a fight all be Naruto going Kyuubi form, or Jiraya going Sage form, etc.
So count your blessings...
Naruto Filler Episodes > DBS Constiapation noises for half an hour.
Ha, the old generation! What's Kakashi? Like, 25 years old? And Asuma can't be older than 30, can he? Same with Yamato. I mean, sure, jiraya, Tsunade, and the Third are all old people, but all these team leaders are huffing and puffing like they're fifty!
Seriously, does that mean in ten more years Shika-Ichi-Cho team are out of luck?? And let's not forget that any of the teachers could destroy Ino without batting an eye, that poor girl is more useless than Kurenai.
The king Asuma is refering to isn't just the next generation of ninja but rather all the new born children and young children... regardless if the become ninja or not.
oh yeah but i gotta totally agree with u about the filler arcs they are getting worse and worse lol its almost made my eyes bleed...
I actually think that the worst filler was before shippuden, when the random villages kept appearing. My 'Favorite' was the hidden village that worshipped the meteor and prayed around it constantly...then had the nerve to wonder why everyone was getting sick. Uhh...RADIATION!? Nah, couldn't be. Not in this universe. I actually stopped carring about Naruto after they shafted me with the 'Curry of Life'. That was the last time I would let them pillage my ass with such things. But yeah, this looks like trash, as usual. I was hopin that Shippuden would be the comeupance the series needed, but now I've completely given up on the series. That and Bleach. I've been boned too many times by these guys to watch the show again.
Pfft! Kurenai, useless? Try every single girl in Naruto, except perhaps Sakura (but only sometimes) and Temari.
Seriously. If you're a female in Naruto and you're up against a guy...you're gonna lose. And your family life and past are completely unimportant. Poor Tenten!
Unless the guy "lets" you kill him, as is the case with puppet-dude. Lame.
As for the "old generation"...what the heck. Kakashi is 26!! I'm 24 myself, and I really don't think I'm old or out of shape when compared to...10th graders. Ah well, what do I know? I'd better call Dr. Kevorkian over here to put me out of my geriatric misery.
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